Brush It In

Curated by Lorenzo Durantini

Brush it in is a colloquial expression for a wide variety of
alterations made to digital photographs after their creation. The
transition from analogue to digital post-production yielded an
incredible expansion of existing techniques. Adobe Photoshop was
originally developed as a digital emulation of the physical
techniques of the darkroom. It quickly developed its own specific
vocabulary and it is precisely this language that Brush it in
engages with. As digital image making became ubiquitous within
popular culture so did the awareness that these digital tools often
had more power for deception than the photographic act itself.